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110.312.571. Patented Peb. 17,1885.

UNITED STATES 4 PATENT OFFICE. I

ALBERT G. MEAD AND EEWIN F. PIERCE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORSTO MILTON A. KENT, OF SAME PLACE.

SPRING-STUD FOR GLOVES, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,571, dated February17, 1885.

Application filed May 26, 1884. (No model.)

Z' 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALBERT G. MEAD and EDWIN F. PIERCE, of Boston,county of vSuffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvementin Spring-Studs for Gloves, duc., of which the following description, inconnection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, likeletters on the drawings representing like parts. f

Our invention consists in a stud-such as hereinafter described-struckfrom sheet metal, the same being strengthened by corrugating, and beingadapted to co-operate with an eyelet or a button-head to form afastening device. The top of the stud is enlarged to form a head, andthe shank of the stud below the head is contracted to form a neck forthe re ception of the eyelet or button-head.

Figure l represents a blank of suitable shape for the production of oneof our improved spring-studs, the blank having been corrugated to formthe spring-arms and to stiffen the shank, as will be described; Fig. 2,a section of Fig. 1 on the dotted line a: m. Fig. 3 is a perspectiveview of the completed stud; Fig. 4, a vertical cross-section ofthecompleted stud, formed by bending the arms of the blank upward; Fig. 5,a vertical longitudinal section of the spring-stud attached to a part ofa glove, or it may be a piece of fabric, leather, or other material.Fig. Grepresents in plan the stud holding or fastening plate.`

The metal blank shown in Fig. 1 is composed of a base, a, and twolaterally-extended arms, b b', the shank having at its ends holes d, forthe reception of the prongs e of the stud holding or fastening plate f,as represented in Fig. 5, to confine the stud to the material g of theglove or other article.

The metal blank, by means of a suitable die, has its base ct and arms bb shaped as represented in Figs. l and 2, wherein it will be noticedthat the base a is corrugated centrally inthe direction of its length,and that each arm is depressed centrally from the base outward, and leftof such shape as to constitute one half of a hollow-headed `stud whenthe said arms are bent upward, as in dotted lines, Fig. 2, and byreferring to Fig. 4,where one part of the completed fastening is shownin vertical cross-section, it will be noticed that Athe partial sphereof the arm b is made to somewhat overlap the partial sphere of the armb, such construction obviating leaving a slit or gap in the top of thecompleted stud; and in said Fig. 4 it will also be noticed that the baseis curved upwardly, thus giving not only great stiffness to the base,but also enabling it to act as a stop and support for the arms near thebase of the neck a, when the upper part of the stud, formed by-bendingand bringing the two arms b b nearly together, is being acted upon bythe eyelet h or button-head m, to be described. The parts of the arms bb', from the base or narrowest part of the neck a to the point wh erethe arms are bent upward from the longitudinally-corrugated base, formsprings to permit the upper parts of the arms, Fig. 4, to move towardeach other for a limited distance and then spring apart. The ends of thebase are extended laterally to form feet 4, which aid in forming a firmrest or support for the same upon the glove or other article. Thisspring-stud is adapted to be engaged by an eylet or hollow button madeof usual construction.

We claiml. A spring-stud composed of arms b b', bent up from a basecorrugated in the direction of its length and at right angles to thelength of the said arms, the latter beingrcorrugated or shaped to formeach one half of a headed stud, substantially as shown and described.

2. The spring-stud composed of two arms, b b', struck up from asheet-metal base, the said arms being corrugated or bent to form eachone half ofthe neck and head of a stud, one of the arms overlappingtheother at the top or head of the stud, substantially as described.

3. The spring-stud composed of corrugated arms b b', upturned from acorrugated sheetmetal base, a, to form a head and contracted neck belowit, combined with a fasteningplate, and with an eyeiet or button-headadapted to be slipped down over the head of and upon the neck of thespring-stud, the 5 base having feet 4, all substantially as de-Witnesses:

scribed. l G. W. GREGORY,

In testimony whereof we have signed our B. J. NOYEs.

names to this specicabion in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

' ALBERT G. MEAD. EDWIN F. PIERCE.

